- The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant <http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Relevant> as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim. - Dijkstra (1984) The threats to computing science <http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html> (EWD898).
2015-01-18 1:24 GMT+01:00 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < [email protected]>: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of meekerdb > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 3:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: What over 170 people think about machines that think > > There's a whole organization, the Machine Intelligence Research Insitute > (Google MIRI) which seems to do little except think about how to ensure > that a superhuman AI is "friendly" - which I'm pretty sure is provably > impossible. > > I agree with you there. However, even though it may be impossible to > ensure AI is friendly; we should do what is within our power -- as we > develop its precursors -- to attempt to improve the likelihood that it will > look kindly upon the hairless apes that gave rise to it. > Read a few of those essays, by the way; an interesting compilation. Plan > on reading some more of them. > -Chris > > Brent > > On 1/17/2015 2:20 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of meekerdb > > > > Some interesting short essays. > > > > Thanks, they do seem interesting. Also topical, on this subject: AI > experts around the globe are signing an open letter issued Sunday by the > Future of Life Institute that pledges to safely and carefully coordinate > progress in the field to ensure it does not grow beyond humanity's control. > Signees include co-founders of Deep Mind, the British AI company purchased > by Google in January 2014; MIT professors; and experts at some of > technology's biggest corporations, including IBM's Watson supercomputer > team and Microsoft Research. > > -Chris > > > > http://edge.org/contributors/q2015 > > > > > > Brent > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
